Fly home. Appropriately we walked from our hotel to Manchester Airport. Sitting in wait for a flight isn't the most exciting thing to do so I decided to summarize our trip to England.
Coast to Coast trek - devised in 1972 by Alfred Wainwright, from St Bees on the Irish Sea to Robin Hood's Bay on the North Sea, 198 miles. We walked it over 12 days using NorthWest Walks who organized the accommodations and transfer of luggage each day. For us this was one backpack but most people had the baggage transfer company moving one decent sized suitcase per person. A benefit of this was reducing the load on my ankle which had bone spurs removed on April 4.
Hadrian's Wall path trek. 84 miles from Wallsend to Bowne on Solway. We organized this ourselves after getting to Newcastle by bus. Booking accommodation proved to be more difficult than expected. We considered doing part of the Pennine way but abandoned the idea because of difficulty getting B&Bs. I contacted NWW and they were not accepting any bookings for June because of a shortage of accommodation.
Keswick. We learned about Keswick from a hiker that we talked to on the trainto St Bees. When we were in Carlisle I couldn't find places to stay through booking.com. I found a nice place through AirBnB. That gave us 4 days.
Amberside arose out of a chance conversation with another couple in Greenhead. I got 7 nights at a B&B through AirBnB.
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